US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Nov. 25 for "Backup navigation system for unmanned aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,289, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Backup navigation system for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Dinuka Abeywardena (Mountain View, Calif.) and Damien Jourdan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method that involves operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to begin a flight, where the UAV relies on a navigation system to navigate to a destination. During the flight, the method involves operating a camera to capture images of the UAV's environment, and analyzing the images to detect features in the environment. The method also involves establishing a c...